here in the uk the cost of living is going up far beyond wage rises.
the cost of travelling is shooting up each time i look at a petrol pump!
water rates are rising.
I really believe it is in part, to keep as many people on the treadmill feeding the giant economy monster as possible.
If we all could hope off and grow our own food, be less dependant on power, fuels and technology, the world as we know it would collapse.
Oz
we'll see how long this lasts.... i'll write a chapter each day.
every day.. when there is nothing left to say.....it is over.. it could end up being a book nobody will every read.
or, it might be read by a few and it might mean something to somebody.
I am stunned Terry
i have never read a clearer picture of the Watchtowers criminality in getting young men to Martyr themselves in the name of self agrandizement.
What they did to you and thousands of other boys back then (and probably still do) was disgusting. And to think that if you were in mexico all you would have had to do to stay in good standing was bribe some officials...
Oz
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2001051?q=governing+body&p=par.
another unforgettable annual meeting.
these questions were answered at the annual meeting held on october 1, 1971. on that occasion, one of the speakers pointed out that the governingbody of the faithful and discreet slave preceded the watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania by hundreds of years.
perhaps they all wake up one morning with the same name on their lips...
maybe a few months ago, they all stumbled out of bed, rolled off their trophy wives and went, "mmmmm mark Sanderson''
I can imagine them all bumping into each other at breakfast chanting ''mark Sanderson Mark Sanderson mark sanderson"...
oz
zech.
"this is what jehovah of armies has said...."it will be in those days that ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold ,yes they will actually take hold of the skirt of a man who is a jew saying:"we will go with you people,for we have heard that god is with you people ".. this was a scripture that was presented to me, that i was fullfilling bible prophecy , when i first became interested in jw`s and of course all other studies,baptisms that were occuring at that time .and the clincher of course was,.
isa.60:22 the little one himself will become a thousand and the small one a mighty nation.i myself jehovah,shall speed it up in it`s own time .. and i`m talking now about the early 1960`s.
they stay in never never land, never mentioned again so that in a just a few short years most JWs have never heard of them.
OZ
im on my phone, so im really limited.
i came out to my family about my doubts and my sexuality.
shit hit the fan.
wow. At least you have faced your worst fears, from here it should be easier. Not saying it will be a walk in the park, but it sure is a nicer path one walks when one is true to themself.
please stay in touch with the board for encouragement and support. You will be able to start again and find true friends and create a family out of those who actually do not care about such insignificant things as ones sexuality and beliefs.
stay strong
Oz
has anyone heard any info about the backpack in the us?
there's a topic with about 10 pages about it over in the spanish forum.
http://www.extj.com/showthread.php?22472-la-mochila.
yes lois, mum is still alive, waiting to die or be rescued by the big A.
on thread, yeah i can see it now, on the six oclock news...''yeah we all safe because our organization told us to prepare these neat little backpacks. Pity those poor catholic neighbors who died...if only they had served the true god je-ho-vah, you got that mr reporter? not jehovna witness ok''?
oz
we'll see how long this lasts.... i'll write a chapter each day.
every day.. when there is nothing left to say.....it is over.. it could end up being a book nobody will every read.
or, it might be read by a few and it might mean something to somebody.
great stuff terry...keep em coming!
oz
has anyone heard any info about the backpack in the us?
there's a topic with about 10 pages about it over in the spanish forum.
http://www.extj.com/showthread.php?22472-la-mochila.
looks like a prepare for a natural disaster pack more than an armageddon pack though...perhaps they are trying to make everyone 'prepared' so that when tsunamis, earthquakes or terrorists attack they are easier to find...or survive without 'mother' having to go help them...
oz
has anyone heard any info about the backpack in the us?
there's a topic with about 10 pages about it over in the spanish forum.
http://www.extj.com/showthread.php?22472-la-mochila.
Reminds me of the start of 1975 when we (mother and 3 kids) went into the old shed and dug a big hole. We buried a stash of bibles and watchtowers as our 'survive 75' package. Theory was that as the persecution mounted and we lost touvh with Sydney bethel, we could scoot back under the cover of darkness and retrieve our contriband stash of 'food'.
I kid you not!
I went beck to the old house last year, met the owner who told me how he had recently cemented the floor...so i said :"you want to know something funny"...
Oz
i believe that one of the next big doctrine changes will be that the non annointed can be on the gb (and eventually the whole gb will be non annointed).. now that they have slipped through that they are all domestics (the "idea" that jeffery jackson loves so) the current gb are also "domestics" when not meeting as the gb, just as the rest of the rank and file and other annointed are.. not hard to see how they can now bring in any "domestic'' annointed or not to be on the gb.
once one is in, they can bring in more as they swap over.. stand by for more new light from the celestial chariot.... they would not have made so much of the whole ''domestic'' thing just because jackson had the happies for it, there will be a reason behind the manourver i am sure.
i can't see it as essential to the change of fds from the remnant to the 8. that they could have just stated and it would have been accepted without question.
They will change it when having 'too young' guys appointed to the GB who have to be annointed causes problems.
can you imagine brother so and so born in 1980, baptised in 1996 and annointed in 2000 getting on the GB?
the whole ''domestics'' thing at the AGM was not needed to pass the change of FDS to just the GB, i just think there is a whole other 'setting the stage' thing going on with that one...
Oz
